NZ family fight to keep sick mum

Every time Evangeline Acero Stanners looks at her two young children, she is reminded of how little time she has left with them.

The Filipina mother of two New Zealand-born children, aged 2 and six months, has been told by Immigration New Zealand that she will have to leave when her work permit expires in January - despite being married to a New Zealander.

Immigration has told Mrs Stanners, 35, that she will not be granted residency, which she applied for in June last year, because she was diagnosed with having advanced kidney disease during her second pregnancy last year.

"If I have to leave my children, I know it might be the last time that I will see them, ever. As a mother, my fight to stay alive is so that I can be here for them," she said.

A sad story. On the upside I think it unlikely they will actually turf her out, esp. now the case is in the media. I know one lady on dialysis that INZ has been trying to get rid of for at least the last 5 yrs, she's single, but she keeps appealing etc.

Every time Evangeline Acero Stanners looks at her two young children, she is reminded of how little time she has left with them.

The Filipina mother of two New Zealand-born children, aged 2 and six months, has been told by Immigration New Zealand that she will have to leave when her work permit expires in January - despite being married to a New Zealander.

Immigration has told Mrs Stanners, 35, that she will not be granted residency, which she applied for in June last year, because she was diagnosed with having advanced kidney disease during her second pregnancy last year.

"If I have to leave my children, I know it might be the last time that I will see them, ever. As a mother, my fight to stay alive is so that I can be here for them," she said.